Five brave young Australians’ UN human rights complaint

Ahead of COP26, five brave young Australians from youth, First Nations and disability communities facing acute harm from climate change, have lodged a trio of human rights complaints with the United Nations (UN) over the Australian government’s failure to act to meaningfully cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. 

The complaints are made jointly to the UN Special Rapporteurs for Human Rights and Environment, the rights of Indigenous people, and the rights of persons with disabilities. They make the case that the Morrison government’s globally-criticised 2030 emissions reduction target, fails to uphold the human rights of every young person in Australia, particularly those at acute risk from climate harms including young First Nations people and people with disabilities.